How fast do you kick compared to swimming?
This is prompted by a set in pwb's High Volume Workouts where a kicking interval/100 was 20 seconds more than normal swimming interval.
The question: What is the spread between your challenge interval for 5x100 swimming and 5x100 kicking?
In my case, I can kick fly on an interval 40 seconds slower than the fastest interval I can make for 5x100 swimming. Free kick is 10 seconds slower (slower than fly kicking).
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This will obviously depend on whether you are kick-heavy or pull-heavy. Most swimmers are pull-heavy (which makes sense because the legs are less oxygen-efficient). That being said, the best swimmers have a healthy balance of each - so I recommend that you work on your kick if you are pull-strong and your pull if you are kick-strong.
I am kick-heavy.
My best 100 yd kick is about 9 seconds slower than my best 100 yd swim (in practice).
For 5x100s, I would say the spread interval would probably be somewhere in the 10-15 second slower-for-kick range.
This will obviously depend on whether you are kick-heavy or pull-heavy. Most swimmers are pull-heavy (which makes sense because the legs are less oxygen-efficient). That being said, the best swimmers have a healthy balance of each - so I recommend that you work on your kick if you are pull-strong and your pull if you are kick-strong.
I am kick-heavy.
My best 100 yd kick is about 9 seconds slower than my best 100 yd swim (in practice).
For 5x100s, I would say the spread interval would probably be somewhere in the 10-15 second slower-for-kick range.
